Abdallah ibn al-Mu'tazz, Abbasid prince and poet, anti-caliph for one day

Abdallah ibn al-Mu'tazz

Abbasid prince, poet and politician (861–908)

Abdallah ibn al-Mu'tazz was the son of the caliph al-Mu'tazz and a political figure, but is better known as a leading Arabic poet and the author of the Kitab al-Badi, an early study of Arabic forms of poetry. This work is considered one of the earliest works in Arabic literary…